No, I'm well aware of the eugenics origins of much the current field of statistics (and even the racial etymologies of terms like "regression to the mean"). In

No, I'm well aware of the eugenics origins of much the current field of statistics (and even the racial etymologies of terms like "regression to the mean"). In fact, I'd say most of our social sciences were originally primarily concerned with eugenics But the claim that the practice of p-hacking itself has such a specific history seems dubious and I don't quite see how your source backs that up—interesting though it is